In five weeks time, Mike Wallau has transformed Mike’s Cafe, into a rustic Italian restaurant featuring farm-to-table food, much of it grown organically. Now called Portola Kitchen, the restaurant, located in the Ladera Country Shopper, sports a new look, along...

You gotta love a restaurant that offers you a perfectly crisp and light Belgium waffle with Nutella sauce — at the end of dinner. That’s one of the joys of the new Portola Kitchen, which opened last month up in the tree-lined hills of Portola Valley. It’s in the old...